Major Burney on the Lacquered-Ware of Ava. © 449 
upon examining a piece of japanned ware of China, considered it to be 
made of a different material, unknown to them. 
With this paper, I send the following articles* used by Burmese japanners, 
and specimens of their manufacture: 
No. 
or 
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18. 
19. 
Fourteen akhwet or cups, shewing the japan-work in the different stages of 
manufacture, viz. 
. Frame of basket-work. 
. A coat of plain theet-tsee, applied to the outside of the basket-work,. after the rim 
has been cut round. 
. The upper basket-work scraped thin with a knife, and the rim cut smoother ; 
then the hole at the bottom of the cup filled up with /hwa-za tha-yo, or saw- 
dust ¢ha-yo, and a coat of the tha-yo-gyan, or coarse priming of theet-tsee, 
calcined bones and saw-dust, applied to the inside and outside. 
. The inside ground smooth on the lathe with the pumice-stone, red earth, and water. 
. The outside ground smooth in the same manner, and the inside covered with a coat 
of the tha-yo akhyau, or fine priming of theet-tsee and calcined bones only. 
. The outside as well as inside covered with the fine priming. 
. The outside and inside ground and made smooth on the lathe with the hyouk- 
pyen-gwe stone, teak-wood charcoal, and water, and with a wet cloth. 
. Two coats of theet-tsee ayoung-den, or first kind of varnish applied. 
. Outside finished with the polishing powder. 
Inside and outside covered with a coat of the first kind of vermilion, or han-za- 
pada yowe. 
. The Shan yowon-tho or engraving, before the incisions and hollows of the gravers 
have been filled up with vermilion. 
The Shan yowon-t’ho completed, and a coat of the semi-transparent mixture put on. 
. The Burma @ho, or Burma yowon-tho, before the yellow or green colour has 
been applied. 
. Burmad@ho completed. The tshe-dan or orpiment rubbed on, and the polish- 
ing powder applied. 
Three tha-men-tsa out-gyee, or dinner-boxes, manufactured at Ava, and shewing 
this japan work in the different stages of manufacture, viz. 
. The wooden frame-work joined together with saw-dust tha-yo. 
. The same covered with a coat of phweé-bya-tha-yo, which has been ground smooth 
on the lathe. 
- The box completed, having had three coats of theet-tsee over the tha-yo, before 
the vermilion was put on. 
A basket-work frame of a kwon-eet cr betel box, shewing the hyoung-lein-yet or 
weaving. Cup No. 1, is a specimen of the ha-tein-gya-yet, excepting the 
border round the rim, which is of the first kind of basket-work. 
A Burmese bucket of basket-work. 
* Now in the Society’s Museum. 
